Posted on 10/17/2011 11:30:18 AM PDT by mandaladon
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) -- Look no further than Nevada - and this swing voting city - to understand why President Barack Obama may not win re-election next fall.
Unemployment has grown to 13.4 percent, well above the national average, in recent months. The state has the highest foreclosure rate and record bankruptcies. And shuttered casinos collect dust along the glittering Las Vegas Strip that's usually a robust artery of jobs.
"Obama's hope hasn't done anything," grouses Larry James, a security guard who moved here from Philadelphia for work a decade ago, back when the state was booming.
It's so bad here that even the president's fans worry about the country firing him - and Nevadans helping.
"I'm afraid for Obama," frets Linda Overby.
The state is filled with people like Overby and her husband, who lost their union painting jobs and began paying their mortgage with unemployment checks in April. They'd like to look for work elsewhere but they are "underwater" - they owe more for their mortgage than what their home is worth. The value has dropped from $330,000 to $88,000 in six years. And her household income has declined from $2,000 to $650 a week.
Such statistics, comments and stories shed light on why Nevada is one of the Republican Party's targets to pick up come November 2012 - and why Democrats are worried.
It also explains why Nevada is abuzz in national political activity this week.
Leaders of both major political parties are descending on the state to plot strategy and rally activists as they gird for the tough presidential election year ahead in a state that helped elect Bill Clinton twice, George W. Bush twice and then went for Obama by a comfortable 12 percentage point margin in 2008.
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She doesn't know who she will vote for next fall.
But she knows this much: "We can't take four more years of this.".........................The nightmare will be over when Zero gets booted out in 2012.
not worry!
seiu will throw the election again.
Forget this. If Nevada sent Harry Reid back, Nevada would vote for a dog turd with a D after it.
Harry Reid and the Mob will make sure Obama wins Nevada. Once you steal an election, it gets easier to keep stealing them.
Too late to cry over spilled milk... You deserve the politicians that you elect and you deserve everything they do to you after they are in power.
Not only did they vote for the big O and his Hope and Change mantra, they re-elected Reid in 2010.
Sorry but I cannot feel any pity for your current state. Good luck!
“Look no further than Nevada - and this swing voting city - to understand why President Barack Obama may not win re-election next fall.”
How about, “look no further than up and down your street” (anywhere in the US).
Obama will not run for re-election in 2012; I still believe that.
“Obama’s hope hasn’t done anything,” grouses Larry James
Well maybe next time you’ll ask “what do you mean by hope and change??”
Though I still believe that President Obama will win re-election, I can't ignore the fact that in only two years Obama has gone from being regarded by liberals as a demigod sent down from Mount Olympus to rescue mankind into becoming a buck-dancing Uncle Tom house negro for the white Wall Street bankers.
“It’s so bad here that even the president’s fans worry about the country firing him - and Nevadans helping.
“I’m afraid for Obama,” frets Linda Overby.
The state is filled with people like Overby and her husband, who lost their union painting jobs and began paying their mortgage with unemployment checks in April. They’d like to look for work elsewhere but they are “underwater” - they owe more for their mortgage than what their home is worth. The value has dropped from $330,000 to $88,000 in six years. And her household income has declined from $2,000 to $650 a week. “
Union members without a job? Say it ain’t so.
I’ll fill y’all in on my latest visit to LV about two weeks ago for a championship banquet.
Since before my father passed away in 1997, I was the black sheep in the family because I would not take a union job. First of all, I don’t live out there but where my right to work skills have me in Florida.
So when I went to dinner with the family all of a sudden the conversation went to politics. Naturally, I expected to be impugned, again, but when I started to pipe up about the issues they were talking about, they were all ears. This from people who just a year ago were cussing Sharon Angle to me without my saying anything about her.
Now all of a sudden they are eager for me to send them information that I come across. They were, key word here, worshipers of Dingy Harry but now they don’t even want to talk about him.
I was stunned!
1) Nevada will vote for obama
2) Nevada will keep reid until HE wants to retire
LLS
54% of American voters were stupid enough to elect Obama in 2008. That means they are stupid enough to fall for any demagogue who comes along promising to fix their problems.
Nevada rats have a 7% advantage in registration over Republicans. Reid came from 5 down 48 hours prior to the election due to “street” money and, more importantly, the “Independent” voter dislike of Sharron Angle. Many Indies stayed home. Angle’s campaign was horrible and even Palin stayed clear. Reid’s cronies pretty much set things up for Angle to win the R primary. Tarkanian probably would have destroyed dirty Harry and had the backing of Palin’s dad.
Are people beginning to see what a pathologial liar Mac
daddy is, was and always will be as long as his lips move?
For Obama?? She's clearly delusional. Her home lost nearly 3/4 of its value and she's worried about Obama!?
I tend to agree unless the guv, and other people who were elected as Pubs in many offices last time out, can rally the Indies,ReaganDems, TEAS, and Libertarians to unite with the GOP and vote out the Dem dunces.
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